Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military complex. And since erratas reflects ignorance of Latin...
Brower will spend next year at Oxford on a Fulbright Fellowship. He will lecture on English and finish a book on Shakespeare. Kaiser plans to use his leave to finish a book on Spenser...
Most of your nondramatic poets between Spenser and Milton. Looks to be a fairly tough course, but you get your money's worth from Professor Baker, a Harvard regular who is not to be out-Donne...
change," as Poet Edmund Spenser put it, is whirling ever faster. This is probably the most important fact of our age - and the reason why TIME last week sponsored the second in a series of conferences on "the Environment of Change." For four days at Sterling Forest, Tuxedo, N.Y., 42 leading U.S. businessmen discussed the technological and social shifts around us with 13 professors from various disciplines...
...Spenser Blight is a 617-lb. night-clerk with galloping satyriasis. His wife Katy is a voluptuous nymphomaniac whose specialty is catering to men with sexual fetishes. Cool camp? Not really. Unrefrigerated tripe...